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Habitats of the World: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists

10,000 Birds

And understanding habitats in detail is essential to any birder who wants to get the most out of his experiences in the field. Page 101, chapter Habitats of the Neotropics, lovely photos of a Cougar and a Resplendent Quetzal , and a bit of a smallish map of biomes of Central and South America.

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On Cat Killers and Mental Competency

Animal Person

Cats are slaves to no one, at least according to their reputation, which in my experience holds true. Mentally competent people, oddly enough, go around mutilating and killing deer and ducks and cougars, though, when doing so either is in season or some governmental body has decided their numbers need trimming.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? In subsequent experiments, Heinrich confirmed that group interests could drive what an individual raven decides to do.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do). The one that walks around Wall Street and somehow makes you want to invest in the stock market? That was one of his cats.